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title: Lol, what was the name of that bench they sat on? — Russian Fairy Tales, The Iron Wolf, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, what was the name of that bench they sat on? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1116 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Iron Wolf, part 22: a slipper fits, a servant makes a deal and runs from a wolf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 11 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Iron Wolf, part 22: a slipper fit…

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Lol, what was the name of that bench they sat on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** be, sit on · **To what, where:** name, bench

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1116 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Iron Wolf, part 22: a slipper fits, a servant makes a deal and runs from a wolf» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1116-pg29672-part22/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1116-pg29672-part22:t11:1
# text = Lol, what was the name of that bench they sat on?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the name |  |  |  | of that bench | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit on** | past | they | that bench *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bench=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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bridal bench

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1116-pg29672-part22:t11:o1:1
# text = bridal bench
1	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the bridal bench covered with white cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1116-pg29672-part22:t11:o2:1
# text = the bridal bench covered with white cloth
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bench	bench	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | the bridal bench *not said here* |  |  |  | with white cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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feast table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1116-pg29672-part22:t11:o3:1
# text = feast table
1	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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wedding chair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1116-pg29672-part22:t11:o4:1
# text = wedding chair
1	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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